Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I am here to talk about net neutrality. First, though, I wish to commend the Presiding Officer for the agreement we have made on the STOP Act. He is the lead sponsor, and I am the lead Democrat on the bill that will really get at these drugs, like fentanyl, that can kill someone with just a grain-of-salt amount of it, which have been coming in from China and other places through our own Postal Service, which is outrageous for Americans. We have valiantly worked on this bill, and the Senator has worked out an agreement with Senator Hatch and Senator Wyden on the Finance Committee. I want to commend him for that. We are excited the bill is moving forward. Mr. President, I also want to mention another completely separate issue as we debate the NDAA, which is the issue of the Secure Elections Act that Senator Lankford and I have put on as an amendment to this bill. Let me remind my colleagues that we are approaching a different kind of warfare; that is, cyber warfare. It is certainly what we saw during the last election, but we have seen it in the area of business--in attacks on some of our major businesses in our own country--and, of course, we have seen it in elections, as well, with Russia attempting to hack into the election systems of 21 States.…”